Research
- Biomineralization
- Antibody-membrane interactions
- Cell adhesion (osteoclasts)
- NMR and site-directed mutagenesis studies of HIV-1 gp120
- Chemokines interactions with the CCR5 chemokine receptor
- Structure based design of synthetic HIV-1 vaccine
- Structural biology viral glycoproteins
- Therapeutic antibodies and immunogen design for HIV
- Large protein complex formations
- Structures and dynamics of enzymes that catalyze disulfide bond formation for protein folding and assembly
- Physiological functions and therapeutic applications relating to a secreted disulfide bond catalyst
- Oxidative protein folding during assembly of large double-stranded DNA viruses
- Molecular chaperones
- Protein folding
- Allosteric systems
- The cellular architecture: how proteins localize and interact inside of a cell.
- Structural properties of proteins and of protein interactions
- Evolution of proteins, protein interactions and protein-complexes
- Biophysics and evolution of post-translational modifications
- Protein folding mechanism
- Protein-DNA interactions and implications on DNA search
Prof. Abraham (Avi) Minsky
- Structural and biochemical aspects of stress response and resistance
- DNA repair in the cellular context
- Giant viruses: infection cycles, viral factories, membrane assembly and DNA packaging.
- Structure-function investigation of cytosolic and organellar aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases
- Quality control in eukaryotic cells.
- Structural studies of the tumor suppressor protein p53 and its complexes with DNA: exploring the structural code of sequence readout
- Structural studies of oncogenic and functional mutants of p53 and their complexes with DNA: the structural basis of p53 loss of function and rescue
- Structure-function studies on the mechanisms of p53 stabilization and proteosomal degradation
- Proteopedia
- X-ray crystallography
- Proteins of the Nervous System
- Intrinsically Flexible Proteins
- Biomimeralization
- Archaeological science
- Ribosomes structure and function
- Antibiotics and resistance to them
- Origins of life